Laboratories and Research Groups

Laboratories and research groups have a mandate to facilitate the development of an emerging field and to ensure a broad scope by means of a communication project based on a team that includes researchers and students. Such an approach allows us to secure the expertise of researchers, teaching and the training programs.

Laboratories and research groups actually attract students who are already interested in these areas or potentially interested due to participating in exchanges and activities which take place. Their mandate is also to project throughout the Faculty and even beyond through seminars, guest researchers and collegial interactions. Finally, the team work that takes place is promising for future applications for grants from funding agencies.

Carceral Studies Research Collective

Justin Piché, Director

The Carceral Studies Research Collective (CSRC) is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that aims to document shifts and continuities in carceral power and violence; contribute to the development of analytical and strategic tools to help dismantle exclusionary structures; and build alternatives that contribute to the work of existing public policy initiatives and social movements that foster inclusive conflict resolution and social justice in communities, both locally and beyond.

INSPIRE Laboratory

Simon Beaudry, Senior Manager

The INSPIRE Laboratory is a shared multidisciplinary research facility designed to give researchers the resources to explore questions from various fields related to human behaviour.

FemAnVie

Simon Lapierre, Director

The Feminist Anti-Violence Research Collective (FemAnVi) is a stimulating space aiming to develop and support research, social interventions and activist actions within feminist battles on violence against women.

HumAnimaLab (HAL)

David Jaclin, Director

Our aim is to map contemporary human/animal relationships and inquire about wildlife trafficking and green criminology.

Interdisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology Study and Research Laboratory

Sophie Lebel, Director

The aims of our lab are to (1) create new synergies among psychosocial oncology researchers at the University of Ottawa, and (2) foster training to promote excellence in interdisciplinary psychosocial oncology research and practice.

Canadian Politics Laboratory (LERPC)

Luc Turgeon, Director

The LERPC allows colleagues to share their work and exchange, in an interdisciplinary context, on important issues related to Canadian politics.

Laboratory for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food (LISF)

Marie-Josée Massicotte, Director

The LISF is an interdisciplinary space for research, dialogues and exchanges between professors, students and community partners who are interested in food and its multiple dimensions.

QUIBB: Quantitative Investigation of Brain and Behavior

Denis Cousineau, Director

The Quibb - Quantitative Investigation of Brain and Behavior - is a joint laboratory studying emergent properties of cortical circuits, memory development and decision processes.

Past Laboratories

African Study and Research Laboratory (ASRL) (2007-2012), Abdoulaye Gueye, Director
Federalism and Institutions Study and Research Laboratory (FISRL) (2007-2012), Patrick Fafard, Director
Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques symboliques (Onoups) (2009-2013), Dalie Giroux, Director
Study and Research Laboratory on Migrations, Mobilities and Social Change (2010-2013), Hélène Pellerin, Director

Study and Research Laboratory in Economic Development (RECODE-LAB) (2014-2015), Louis Hotte, Director

Health Policy Research Group

Rose Anne Devlin, Director

The Health Policy Research Group is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that focuses largely on issues related to end-of-life (EOL), including: establishing criteria for evaluating appropriate EOL care; the analysis of EOL care locational decisions; the role of the state in EOL care; and EOL care and its relationship to other health expenditures.

Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Territories of Extraction

Karine Vanthuyne, Director

The objective of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Territories of Extraction (IRGTE) is to develop a common and socially significant research program on these issues. It is comprised of an interdisciplinary team of professors and students from the Faculty of Social Sciences (anthropology, development studies and globalization, political science and sociology) and the Faculty of Law, whose research interests span the range of socio-environmental issues raised by the extractive industry.

Research Group on Structural Approaches and Social Work Practice

Simon Lapierre, Director

Social Sciences of Health Interventions Research Groupe (SSHIRG)

Dahlia Namian and Nicolas Moreau, Directors

This research group proposes to study practices in health intervention from a social perspective. It is made up of an interdisciplinary team of professors, researchers and students from the domains of social work, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law and nursing. The team members’ respective interests intersect in a transversal manner with the topic of social intervention in health.

Strategic Decision-Making Research Group

Céline Blanchard, Director

The primary objective of this project is to better understand the role of individual (e.g., personality, cognitions) and group (structure, role differentiation) characteristics in decision-making in general.

Past Groups

Attachment Research Team (2009-2012), Marie-France Lafontaine, Director
Research Group on Time Use (2009-2012), Catherine Deri-Armstrong, Director